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The Effect of Personal Playfulness, Sense of Humor, and Organizational Playfulness Climate on Staff Innovative Behavior

This study aimed to investigate relationship between individual and organizational variables on staff innovative behavior. Individual variables were personal playfulness and sense of humor, and organizational variable was organizational playfulness climate. The analyses were done by using hierarchical linear modeling for Windows.
The main findings of this study were as follows:
1. Personal playfulness had significant influence on staff innovative behavior.
2. The sense of humor had insignificant influence on staff innovative behavior.
3. Organizational playfulness climate had significant influence on staff innovative behavior.
4. The relationship among personal playfulness, sense of humor, and staff innovative behavior was not affected by organizational playfulness climate.
Finally, some suggestions were offered as references to businesses and further studies.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0716109-163600
Date16 July 2009
CreatorsWu, Ching-ling
ContributorsYong-Chuan Wang, Chin-Ming Ho, Jie-Tsuen Huang
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Formatapplication/pdf
Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0716109-163600
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